Georgia Drought… What Drought?

I don’t want to jinx things but have you noticed how much rain we’ve had lately? According to the Georgia Drought Monitor, this time last year 84.1% of the state was considered to be abnormally dry. As of September 16, that number had dropped to 10.1%. Lest you doubt that the drought is ending, consider that a lingering low pressure system— sort of like a watered down version of a tropical storm— continues to pull abundant moisture from the Gulf of Mexico to produce areas of scattered to widespread showers and thunderstorms from the eastern portions of the Southern Plains into the Eastern Valleys and the Southeast. The bottom line is that we’ve had a lot of rain and in the short term we can expect a bit more. With the ground being super-saturated and with more rain in sight, I figured that it might be a good time to go over flood tips: